Phillip, Bob, George and Earl. Can't forget Earl. This all I can think of right now.
I found you a good place for some trivia, here a few that there;
Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.
There were women in the Continental Army, even a few who saw combat! Probably the best known is Mary Ludwig Hays, nicknamed 'Molly Pitcher.' She replaced her wounded husband at his cannon during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Another wife of an artilleryman, Margaret Corbin, was badly wounded serving in her husband's gun crew at the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776. Thousands of other women served in Washington's army as cooks and nurses.
2007-01-14 04:18:28
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answered by Snaglefritz 7
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First, your in the wrong category ask for help with your homework.
Secondly, about 1/3 of the population assisted in the revolution and about 1/3 was against it. Do you want all of those names or only some of them? If only some, which ones? If you are only talking about leaders their are hundreds.
If you can't do your own homework you should at least learn how to ask questions in a way in which they can actually be answered.
2007-01-14 04:29:37
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answered by Randy 7
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Don't feel like doing your own homework? Try going to a Library and looking up American Revolution. No one learns anything from being given the answers.
2007-01-14 04:22:07
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answered by Travis W 3
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On what level? On a broad scale, it was the entire population of the 13 colonies (minus the Tories of course). If you need actual individuals... then there are all the signers of the Declaration of Independence (which you can look up online). There's the military leaders (George Washington, his commanders) and also the foreigners who came to help train the fledgling American army, such as Lafayette (French) and Pulaski (Polish) and von Steuben (German). For a comprehensive list of the military go to Wiki
2007-01-14 04:20:59
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answered by Meagan M 2
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Try to find a biography of Thomas "Tom" Paine and his fundamental book in this question, "Common Sense". This ignitive booklet, a journal in its beginnings, finished by selling 120.000 copies in January- 1776, when War of Independence was in its 1st year after the cruel events, near a genocide, of Old State House (Boston) in March 1770, and the 'real' beginning of War in Lexington (Massachusetts), April 19, 1775, with 'red coat' general Gage's forces shooted musketry against people in rebellion, a major named Pitcairn tried to put hands in ammunition of rebels in Concorde, and an anonymous soldier falls and his musket shoots the first bullet of the Independence.
Paine was an English francmason and quaker with an absolutely revolutionary acting and point of view. Inmigrated in Pennsylvania, he found the protection of another "Father" of Revolution and Independence Act: Benjamin Franklin. In the beginning there were England King Georges III and his Prime Minister Pitt, both of them___ emotionally disturbed. British Empire was in bankruptcy and they tried to set it up by increasing absurd taxes on the 13 colonies. Find "Stamp Act", "Cider Act", "Sugar Act" and over all the "Tea Act". This one began the mutiny.
Americans disguised like mohawks went by night to the wharfs of Boston, headed by Samuel Adams (16-december-1773) and his "Sons of Liberty", and threw to the sea the tea imported from faraway Orient, when it was cultivated in the finishing Colonies as good or better. For me, Revolution-Independence can be attributed to "The Two Toms", Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson. The funds? In the Scottish Logia of Francmasons. This "Great Orient" financed the Independence of all American Colonies. From "Common Sense": "Can we but leave posterity with a settled form of Government, an independent constitution of its own, the purchase at any price will be cheap. But to expend millions for the sake of getting a few vile acts repealed, and routing the present ministry only, is unworthy the charge, and is using posterity with the utmost cruelty..." For Paine, Government was just "a mode made necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world". This way of thinking transformed the simple rebellion in revolution and thus Independence. Paine and Jefferson were, this last in his beginnings, Paine convinced (he died poor and alone) that slave trade was no good, nor human. Any form of cruelty ashamed him of being part of the world.
But a synthesis is impossible for what you ask. After "Common Sense" began the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms", based on Paine's ideas. This took place in Philadelphia in june 1776. Names? Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia) : John Adams (Massachusetts): Roger Sherman (Connecticut) ; Robert R. Livingston
(New York) and the othe "Tom", Thomas Jefferson, (Virginia). George Washington was called to be the commander-chief of militia transformed in US Army (13 stars). Don't forget Madison and if you've got the chance go to Annapolis and there visit the Congress, they've got better information. A copy of "Common Sense" should be essential. In our times also... For the other protagonists, go to the National Cemetery of Arlington (Virginia) and hace a look at the Unknown Soldier's Grave. It was the farmers, the priests (that read "Common Sense" from their pulpits and were blamed by the Tories and British Bishops; the seamen, the people in arms against tyranny. Good luck and take it easy.
2007-01-14 06:00:14
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answered by Rafael Maria Castellano 2
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ALL OF AMERICA, PARTS OF CANADA ,FRANCE(THEY STARTED IT) THE BRITISH, SOME PARTS OF CHINA, AND WALES. LF
2007-01-14 04:28:07
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answered by lefang 5
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